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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1879

19 stories in Riverina's papers

Terrible Scene in a Concert Room at Inglewood. (From the Bendigo Advertiser, January 13.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 1

ON Friday evening, towards the close of an amateur concert at the Royal Hall, Inglewood, a most shocking accident occurred through the fall of a…

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Terrible Scene in a Concert-room

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 January 1879 · page 2

THE Inglewood correspondent of the Bendigo Advertiser, on Saturday, the 11th instant, writes:— Last evening, towards the close of an…

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Destruction Fo the Exchange Theatre, Albury. (Albury Banner.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1879 · page 1

A SERIOUS fire broke out in this town on Thursday evening, and destroyed a large amount of valuable property. The fire originated in the coach factory of Messrs…

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Tuesday, February 11. (Before Messrs. W. Band and S. Hawkins, J's.P.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1879 · page 2

INSULTING LANGUAGE.—Robert Atkins v. Francis Ledwidge. Case dismissed, as the Bench had no jurisdiction…

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Gundagai Town Band

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1879 · page 2

On Wednesday evening a meeting of persons interested in the Town Band was held at Fry's Hotel, to receive the resignation of Mr. C. Smith as a trustee, to elect another gentleman in his…

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The Theatre, From a Christian Standpoint

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 22 March 1879 · page 2

THE following lecture on "The Theatre, from a Christian Standpoint," was delivered on Sunday evening last by the Rev. J. Jefferis, LL.B., who thus…

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Public Meeting.—band

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 29 March 1879 · page 3

PURSUANT to advertisement, a public meeting was hold at the Albion Hotel on Monday evening last, with the object of enabling the townspeople to express an opinion on the…

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Amatuer Concert

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 16 April 1879 · page 3

The amateur concert at the Masonic Hall, which wound up the round of Easter Monday doings in Wagga, proved a greater success than the promoters hoped for. Such a…

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The Bachelors' Ball

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 24 May 1879 · page 3

"Nothing extenuate, nor aught set down in malice."—OTHELLO. Having had the good fortune to rank among the favoured ones who received invitations to the above festivity, and finding engraved…

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Concert

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 24 May 1879 · page 6

A MIXED entertainment was given in the Assembly Hall on Tuesday night last, hurriedly got up by the gentleman amateurs of the town to raise funds on behalf of the…

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St. Andrew's Presbyterian Tea Meeting and Concert

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1879 · page 4

ACCORDING to announcement the above tea meeting and concert was held in the Masonic Hall, on Thursday evening. At 6 o'clock the people begun to assemble, and at…

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Poetry. the Dance of the Dead

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 26 July 1879 · page 2

The sexton looked forth, at the mid-hour of night, O'er the tombs where the dead were reclining; The moon, at its full, gave a great, ghostly light, And the churchyard as day was shining…

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The Gundagai Hospital Ball. [After Tennyson.]

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 19 August 1879 · page 4

Nine o'clock, half-past, ten o'clock on ward, Into the lighted room poured the half hundred, Dance was the general cry, Round the vast room they fly,…

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Fancy Dress Ball

Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 10 September 1879 · page 2

THE Fancy Dress Ball, held last Dight at the Masonic Hall, proved successful, beyond anticipation. The costumes selected by the ladies were in some cases remarkably rich, in…

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The Local Band. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 1 October 1879 · page 2

SIR,—In consequence of Mr. Lilly, late bandmaster, accepting an engagement with the St. Leon circus, our local band will, in all probability, be broken up—a very…

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Two Pictures. Bowen and Scott

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 12 December 1879 · page 4

Cold and sileatly he lies, pulseless, and still, And o'er the marble brow death's abade is scen; Une ascions now to either good or ill, Feresrs, the centre of the solerun scene…

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Gundagai Wesleyan Band of Hope Society

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 12 December 1879 · page 2

On Tuesday evening a meeting, which had been announced from the pulpit of the Wesleyan Church, was held in the Temperance Hall for the purpose of considering the advisability of…

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Public School Concert

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1879 · page 2

OUR local amateurs have no reason to complain of the want of public patronage. On cach and every occasion of a concert, no matter what the object, there is always a…

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A Catastrophe at a Dance. (Once a Week.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 24 December 1879 · page 3

As Mr. Adolphus Parker drew on his boots one evening, after tugging violently at the straps, and growing cardinal-red in the face, he remarked:…

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